The Netherlands and Greece were the top solar record setters, while wind power also hit new highs in May and June.
    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      yeah, intermittent power that recently led to grid collapse in spain. it’s not about how much power you make, it’s about how to distribute it efficiently.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        42·
        3 days ago

        US disinformation pigfuckers claimed it was due to intermittent power. No such conclusions were ever made, and there is no physical/tech challenge/impossibility to not have a stable grid with intermittent power.

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          the reason stated in the report was that base load failed to correct. it was a novel failure case, but very much related to a grid with intermittent power tacked on.

          of course there is no technical reason it wouldn’t work, but we are in the real world, where technical solutions are not implemented in a vacuum. the grid is yet to be completely retooled for intermittent wave-following sources, and accidents like this are how we figure out what not to do.

          also “us disinformation pigfuckers”? really? the us has a vendetta against spain now?

          • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
            31·
            3 days ago

            US administration does have a vendetta against renewables, and failure to buy US energy at extortion prices.

              • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
                31·
                3 days ago

                lng and crude oil, like rest of world is supposed to. Instead of setting “a bad example”

                • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  …but europe has never been a us gas or oil importer. that’s just not a market.

                  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
                    21·
                    3 days ago

                    Europe has regularly imported oil from US even as it gets most of it from US/Israel middle east allies that easily replaced Russian supplies. Upon submitting to the US’s proxy war on Russia through Ukraine, NG prices in EU spiked and it got 50% of its supplies in 2022 from US LNG. The US’s determination for climate destruction requires pigfuckers telling EU that renewables don’t work, and it should depend on US energy supplies instead.